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Australia National Maritime Museum

Napoleon's Artists in Australia

This exhibition will present paintings and drawings created by French artists Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit during Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia in 1800–1803. The exhibition will include some of the earliest European views of Aboriginal people and Australian plants and animals.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which is scheduled to tour to six venues between 2016 and 2018.

Development funding: $100,000

Bundanon Trust

Arthur Boyd: An Active Witness

This exhibition focuses on the life and work of Arthur Boyd, presenting his work alongside that of his contemporaries such as Sidney Nolan and Charles Blackman. The exhibition conveys the political life of Boyd, linking his artwork with his actions.

Funding will support the continued touring of the exhibition to three venues in Western Australia, New South Wales and South Australia in 2015–16.

Touring funding: $42,800

The Lady and the Unicorn

The Lady and the Unicorn series was the second collaboration between Arthur Boyd and Australian-born poet Peter Porter. This exhibition showcases the complete suite of 24 etchings from the series, and features extracts from Porter's 20 poems on the theme. The exhibition also explores Boyd's approach to printmaking and its place in his artistic career.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will tour to regional venues in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Queensland and the ACT in 2016–17 and 2017–18.

Development funding: $37,200

Museum of Australian Democracy

Behind the Lines 2015

This annual exhibition showcases Australian political cartoons, featuring work from cartoonists published in both print and online media across Australia as well as historical political cartoons from the Museum of Australian Democracy's collection.

This funding will enable the development and touring of the 2015 exhibition to four venues in New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

Development and touring funding: $57,670

Behind the Lines 2014

Funding will support the continued tour of this exhibition to three venues in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.

Touring funding: $17,330

National Portrait Gallery of Australia

Awesome Achievers: Stories of Australians of the Year

This exhibition will showcase selected portraits of Australian of Year Award recipients from diverse fields of endeavour and explore concepts of national identity. The exhibition will tour to six venues in NSW, VIC and QLD in 2015–16

Touring funding: $21,435

Arcadia: Sound of the Sea

This exhibition of photographs by John Witzig, co-founder of Tracks magazine and founder of SeaNotes, ink drawings by Nicholas Hardin, and film footage by Albert Falzon, explores a group of Australian surfers in the early 1970s.

Funding will support the continued tour of this exhibition to Tweed River, New South Wales in 2015–16.

Touring funding: $14,428

National Photographic Portrait Prize (2015 and 2016)

This annual exhibition promotes the best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. It attracts entrants from all states and territories and reflects a national representation of contemporary Australian photographic portrait practice.

Funding will support the development and touring of the 2015 and 2016 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibitions which will tour to venues in New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia.

Development and touring funding: $39,020

Starstruck: Portraits from the Movies

This exhibition is a major collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive. The exhibition draws on the collections of both institutions and will tell the story of the Australian film. Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will tour to venues in all states and territories.

Development funding: $16,460

Uncommon Australians: The Vision of Gordon and Marilyn Darling

The exhibition will commemorate the Darlings' fundamental contribution to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, and will feature important and iconic works from the collection that have been financially supported by the Darlings. The exhibition will tour to two venues in Victoria and New South Wales.

Touring funding: $8,657

National Archives of Australia

Espionage

This exhibition will explore the history and contemporary role of espionage in Australia by examining the history and changing role of ASIO from 1949 to present. The exhibition will look at the popular culture presentation of spies versus the reality, and the role of technology.

The proposed funding will enable the development of a multi-venue exhibition that will tour to every state and territory.

Development funding: $90,000

National Gallery of Australia

Max and Olive: the photographic life of Max Dupain and Olive Cotton

This exhibition looks at the works of Australian photographers Max Dupain and Olive Cotton produced between 1934 and 1945. Funding will support touring the exhibition to five venues across South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales.

Touring funding: $39,600

Light moves: contemporary Australian video art

The exhibition surveys the work of seven Australian artists working in the medium of video. The exhibition explores the theme of the body moving in space, through various modes of storytelling and reflections on place. This digital exhibition has been designed to suit regional and remote venues that do not have the capacity to display physical works from the Gallery's collection.

Funding will support touring the exhibition to 10 venues across all states and territories.

Touring funding: $37,497

Collection Outreach Program: uncovering works from the National Collection

The Collection Outreach Program provides regional galleries with the opportunity to loan key works from the National Gallery of Australia's collection for long-term display. The activity aims to present important works of art in a regional context, enabling audiences across Australia to view these works in a local gallery alongside their own regional collections.

Funding will support the touring of works to 13 venues across all states and territories in 2015–16.

Touring funding: $72,903

National Gallery of Australia

Qing: Life in China, 1644–1911

This exhibition provides an insight into the diversity of life in China during the reign of the last imperial dynasty. A collaboration between the National Library of Australia and the National Library of China, this exhibition examines nearly 300 years of Chinese life, culture and tradition, and its impact on modern day China.

The funding will enable the development of an exhibition that will extend Australian access to international collections.

Development funding: $130,000

Heroes and villains: Strutt's Australia 

William Strutt was the first great exponent of the history genre of painting to work in Australia. This exhibition will survey his work and demonstrate the development of his most famous paintings through preparatory sketches and manuscripts. Funding will support touring of the exhibition to two venues in the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria.

Touring funding: $20,000

Australian Sketchbook: Colonial life and the art of S.T. Gill

This exhibition seeks to reappraise the significance of colonial artist S.T. Gill and his contribution to Australian visual culture, and will thematically chart the development of Gill's work in Australia from 1839 to 1880. Funding will support touring of the exhibition to two venues in the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria.

Touring funding: $20,000

National Museum of Australia

Encounters

This exhibition will feature a selection of the British Museum's Australian collection, including a significant collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander material. It will contribute to understanding the diversity and history of Indigenous material culture. This exhibition has been developed in collaboration with the British Museum and in partnership with the Indigenous communities that will be represented in the exhibition.

Funding will support the touring of exhibition items from the UK to the National Museum of Australia, and the facilitation of access to the exhibition for communities involved.

Touring funding: $150,000

National Film and Sound Archive

Starstruck: Portraits from the Movies

This exhibition is a major collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive. The exhibition draws on the collections of both institutions and will tell the story of the Australian film. Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will tour to venues in all states and territories.

Development funding: $85,000

Australian National Maritime Museum

The Art of Science: Baudin's voyagers 1800–1804

This collaborative exhibition, led by the Australian National Maritime Museum and National Museum of Australia, will present paintings and drawings created by French artists Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit during Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia in 1800–1804.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT.

Touring funding: $167,355

Bundanon Trust

The Lady and the Unicorn

The Lady and the Unicorn exhibition showcases 25 prints by Arthur Boyd born from the creative collaboration between the artist and Australian-born poet Peter Porter. It includes extracts from Porter's 20 poems on the theme and explores Boyd's approach to printmaking and its place in his artistic career.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to four inner regional venues in New South Wales and Queensland in 2017–18.

Touring funding: $17,390

Arthur Boyd: The Shoalhaven Years

Arthur Boyd: The Shoalhaven Years will concentrate on a little known part of one of Australia’s most famous artists, his work inspired by the landscape of the Shoalhaven River surrounding Bundanon. The works included in this exhibition will convey the artist’s relationship with the landscape that became his home and now a major legacy for the Australian people.

Funding will support development of the exhibition, which will tour to venues across Australia.

Development funding: $67,864

Museum of Australian Democracy

Behind the Lines 2016 and 2017

This annual exhibition showcases the best Australian political cartoons from the year, celebrating Australian's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition of political cartooning. Engaging, witty and always humorous, these images offer an astutely observed journey through twelve months in our political life.

Funding will support the touring of the 2016 exhibition to regional venues in South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria, and development of the 2017 exhibition.

Development and touring funding: $82,225

National Portrait Gallery of Australia

Awesome Achievers: Stories of Australians of the Year

This exhibition will showcase 39 works and audio visual materials showcasing 28 recipients of the Australian of Year Award. It explores concepts of national identity and celebrates an extraordinary array of talent and achievement.

Funding will support the tour of this exhibition to regional New South Wales in 2017–18.

Touring funding: $14,420

Starstruck: Portraits from the Movies

This exhibition is a major collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive which explores through portraiture the intriguing and compelling personal stories of individuals and groups working within the Australian feature-film industry throughout history.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will tour to venues in all states and territories.

Development funding: $28,000

Bare: Degrees of undress

This exhibition showcases 50 portraits across a range of media exploring the degrees of nakedness and includes engaging multimedia elements including a documentary and game.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to four venues in regional New South Wales.

Touring funding: $19,074

National Photographic Portrait Prize (2017 and 2018)

This annual exhibition promotes the best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. It attracts entrants from all states and territories and reflects a national representation of contemporary Australian photographic portrait practice.

Funding will support the touring of the 2017 exhibition and development of the 2018 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition. The 2017 exhibition will tour to five venues in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.

Development and touring funding: $28,454

National Archives of Australia

Secret: Spies and Espionage in Australia

This exhibition will explore the history and contemporary role of espionage in Australia by looking at the popular culture presentation of spies versus the reality of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) business and how technology has impacted on ASIO work.

The proposed funding will enable the continued development of this exhibition that will tour to every state and territory.

Development funding: $78,535

National Gallery of Australia

Abstract Woman: Australian women abstraction artists

This exhibition reveals the vital contribution Australian women artists have made to abstract art and includes painting, sculpture, printmaking and applied arts. Drawn entirely from the Gallery's Australian art collection, 90 works in a range of media including painting, sculpture, printmaking and applied arts will take audiences on a journey from the early 20th century through to the present day.

Funding will support touring the exhibition to four venues in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland in 2017–18.

Touring funding: $23,641

The National Picture

This collaborative exhibition with the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery will focus on portrayals of Tasmanian Aboriginal people from the declaration of martial law in Tasmania in 1828 through until 1851. The works of Benjamin Duterrau, colonial Tasmanian artist, is central to the exhibition.

Funding will support the development of this exhibition with touring planned for the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania.

Development funding: $100,000

Defying Empire: 3rd Indigenous Art Triennial

Defying Empire: 3rd Indigenous Art Triennial brings the works of 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country into the national spotlight.

The exhibition will tour nationally with venues in Northern Territory, Queensland, regional New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania..

Touring funding: $12,250

National Museum of Australia

Happy Birthday Play School: Celebrating 50 Years!

This exhibition celebrates Play School as the longest running children's series on Australian television. Appealing to generations of Australians the exhibition will allow visitors to connect with the sets and props from this beloved show which holds a special place in Australia's cultural memory.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to regional venues in Queensland and New South Wales for 2017–18.

Touring funding: $121,900

Midawarr—Harvest: wild food and art in an Arnhem Land flood plain.

This exhibition will display a select suite of works by Mulkun Wirrpanda, senior female artist of the Dhudi-Djapu clan of north-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, alongside a commissioned landscape by artist John Wolseley to produce a watercolour tableau of the Garrangari and Garrangali floodplain of Yolngu country to explore Yolngu ecology.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, with future touring to New South Wales, Victoria and the Northern Territory.

Development funding: $37,935

National Film and Sound Archive

Starstruck: Portraits from the Movies

This exhibition is a major collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive that explores through portraiture the intriguing and compelling personal stories of individuals and groups working with the Australian feature film industry through its history.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will tour to venues in all states and territories.

Development funding: $28,000

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National Library of Australia

Cook 2018 (working title)

Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of Cook's departure from England, this exhibition celebrates Cook's contribution to science, navigation and the Pacific and explores his complex legacy.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will be presented in 2018 in the Australian Capital Territory.

Development funding: $100,000

George French Angas

This exhibition will survey the work of colonial artist and naturalist George French Angus who made hundreds of watercolour drawings of the colonial frontiers in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa between 1844 and 1847.

Funding will support the development and touring of the exhibition, which will tour to South Australia.

Development funding: $7,200

Australian National Maritime Museum

The Art of Science: Baudin's voyagers 1800–1804

This collaborative exhibition, led by the Australian National Maritime Museum and National Museum of Australia, will present paintings and drawings created by French artists Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit during Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia in 1800–1804.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT.

Touring funding: $153,077

Bundanon Trust

Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul (previously The Shoalhaven Years)

Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul will concentrate on a little known part of the life of one of Australia's most famous artists, and the work inspired by the landscape of the Shoalhaven River surrounding Bundanon. The works included in this exhibition will convey the artist's relationship with the landscape that became his home and now a major legacy for the Australian people.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to inner regional venues in New South Wales and Queensland.

Touring funding: $57,000

Museum of Australian Democracy

Behind the Lines 2017

This annual exhibition showcases the best Australian political cartoons from the year, celebrating Australian's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition of political cartooning. Engaging, witty and always humorous, these images offer an astutely observed journey through twelve months in our political life.

Funding will support the touring of the 2017 exhibition to venues in New South Wales, and Victoria.

Touring funding: $32,000

Behind the Lines 2018

This annual exhibition showcases the best Australian political cartoons from the year, celebrating Australian's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition of political cartooning. Engaging, witty and always humorous, these images offer an astutely observed journey through twelve months in our political life.

Funding will support the development and touring of the 2018 exhibition to venues in the Northern Territory, New South Wales, and Victoria.

Development and Touring funding: $70,200

National Film and Sound Archive

Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits

This exhibition is a major collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive that explores through portraiture the intriguing and compelling personal stories of individuals and groups working with the Australian feature film industry through its history.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will tour to venues in South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.

Development funding: $132,913

National Gallery of Australia

The National Picture: The art of Tasmania's Black War

This collaborative exhibition with Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery will focus on portrayals of Tasmanian Aboriginal people from the declaration of martial law in Tasmania in 1828 through until 1851. The work of Benjamin Duterrau, colonial Tasmanian artist is central to the exhibition, including his painting The Conciliation.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition, which will tour to venues in Tasmania.

Touring funding: $95,634

Art Deco

This exhibition presents works from the National Gallery of Australia's collection. In the 1920s, Australian artists responded to the international movement towards modernism and Art Deco styles. Shaking off the austerity of World War I they created images of an abundant nation filled with strong, youthful figures, capturing the vitalism of a nation reborn.

Funding will support touring the exhibition to venues in New South Wales and Queensland.

Touring funding: $39,981

The Ned Kelly Series

This project is a national tour of Sidney Nolan's 1946—47 paintings on the theme of 19th-century bushranger Ned Kelly. In 1977, Sunday Reed donated 25 of the 27 paintings in Nolan's first exhibited Kelly series to the NGA. These 26 paintings constitute one of the greatest series of Australian paintings of the 20th century and Nolan's invention of an original and starkly simplified image for Ned Kelly—as a slotted black square atop a horse—has become a part of the shared iconography of Australia.

Funding will support touring the exhibition to venues in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Touring funding: $36,540

Defying Empire: 3rd Indigenous Art Triennial

Defying Empire: 3rd Indigenous Art Triennial brings the works of 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country into the national spotlight.

The exhibition will tour nationally with venues in Northern Territory, Queensland, regional New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania.

Touring funding: $26,415

National Library of Australia

George French Angas

This exhibition celebrates the work of George French Angas, a colonial artist and naturalist who made hundreds of watercolour drawings of the colonial frontiers of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa between 1844 and 1847.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, which will be presented in South Australia.

Development and touring funding: $12,000

National Museum of Australia

Happy Birthday Play School: Celebrating 50 Years!

This exhibition celebrates Play School as the longest running children's series on Australian television. Appealing to generations of Australians the exhibition will allow visitors to connect with the sets and props from this beloved show which holds a special place in Australia's cultural memory.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to regional venues in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.

Touring funding: $90,000

Midawarr—Harvest: wild food and art in an Arnhem Land flood plain.

This exhibition will display a select suite of works by Mulkun Wirrpanda, senior female artist of the Dhudi-Djapu clan of north-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, alongside a commissioned landscape by artist John Wolseley to produce a watercolour tableau of the Garrangari and Garrangali floodplain of Yolngu country to explore Yolngu ecology.

Funding will support the touring of the exhibition to Victoria and the Northern Territory.

Touring funding: $110,000

National Portrait Gallery of Australia

Express Yourself

This exhibition draws from the Gallery's contemporary collection and highlights portraits of Australians whose unique life experiences symbolise social and cultural themes. The portraits attest to the facility of photographic portraiture to convey compelling psychological depth. The exhibition will premiere a newly-commissioned portrait of Rosie Batty by photographer Nikki Toole.

Funding will support the tour of this exhibition to regional galleries across Australia, including delivery of outreach education programs.

Touring funding: $29,612

Starstruck: On Location

This exhibition is a condensed version of the Starstruck: Portraits from the movies collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive. Starstruck explores through portraiture, the intriguing and compelling personal stories of individuals and groups working within the Australian feature-film industry throughout history.

Funding will support the development and touring of the exhibition in small venues with limited environmental controls.

Development and touring funding: $34,500

National Photographic Portrait Prize (2018 and 2019)

This annual exhibition promotes the best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. It attracts entrants from all states and territories and reflects a national representation of contemporary Australian photographic portrait practice.

Funding will support the touring of the 2018 exhibition and development of the 2019 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition, including delivery of outreach education programs. The 2017 exhibition will tour to small regional venues in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales.

Development and touring funding: $67,698

Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits

This exhibition is a major collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive that explores through portraiture the intriguing and compelling personal stories of individuals and groups working with the Australian feature film industry through its history.

Funding will support the development of the exhibition, including delivery of outreach education programs, which will tour to venues in South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.

Development and touring funding: $12,430